Shavihg-brush



G. H. RIEFLIN.

SHAVING BRUSH.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 2. 19I4- RENEWED MAR. 28, 1919.

1,320,092. Patented Oct. 28,1919.

IWMMIWW GEORGE H. RIEFLIIV, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

SHAVING-BRUSH.

Specification of Letters Patent. I Patented Oct. 28, 1919.

Application filed October 2, 1914, Serial No. 864,608. Renewed March 28, 1919. Serial No. 285,834.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. RrnrLIN, of Rochester, inthe county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shaving- Brushes, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings.

The present invention relates to shaving brushes and more particularly to that type in which a suitable holder is provided for detachably holding a brush so that other brushes may be substituted, an object of this invention being to provide a cheap brush adapted to be thrown away after one shave and preferably so inclosed as to be sanitary in every respect. A further object of the invention is to provide a cheap holder which may-be made from a single piece of-material and in which the pressure of the fingers thereon in using will have a tendency to clamp the brush within the holder. A still further object of the invention is to provide a brush holder which will eflectively grip the brush while, at the same time, will require but a minimum amount of brush material.

To these and other ends, the invention consists in certain parts and combinations of parts all of which will be hereinafter described, the novel features being pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the brush wrapped within a sanitary inclosure;

Fig. 2 shows the wrapper in section with the brush therein in side elevation;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the holder;

Fig. 4 is a view in side elevation of the holder and the brush combined;

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4: showing the brush holder in section;

Fig. 6 is a view of the holder from the receiving end;

Fig. 7 is a View of the blank from which the holder is bent; and

Fig. 8 is a section through the brush in proximity to one of the clamping rings.

According to the illustrated embodiment of the invention, the brush proper l is formed of a cheap material, preferably a vegetable fiber such as Mexican or Manila hemp which is first sterilized and then secured together at one end by suitable means such, for instance, as one or more metal rings or bands 2 which are placed about the mate- -the lapped ends and the meeti rial and compressed upon the same preferably by lndenting said bands at 3 at equidistant points. The extreme ends of the brush material are coated at 4: with a soap liquid, and the whole brush is then inclosed within a hermetically sealed package. This package is in the form of a sheet of waxed paper 5 rolled in the form of a tube and having its ends folded or lapped over at 5, edges of the sheet belng sealed together y heating the waxed paper at the overlapped portions to make an air tight joint. The brush is held in this package or wrapper until it is ready for use when it is removed and introduced into the holder.

The holder, in this instance, is formed from a SlIlgle sheet of metal cut in the form shown in Fig. 7 with a central portion 6 and radial arms 7, the latter being bent at angles to the central portion so that the arms converge toward each other except at their extreme ends which are deflected outwardly, thus facilitating the introduction of the brush into the chamber between the arms, and, as the arms are made of spring metal, the brush will be held in this position.

In order that a minimum amount of material may be used, some of the arms carry stops or projections 9 which limit the inward movement of the brush between the arms. In this instance, these stops are formed by striking tongues up from one or more of the arms 7 and bending such tongues inwardly parallel with the central portion 6.

From the foregoing, it will be seen that there has been provided a cheap brush impregnated with a suflicient amount of soap for a single shave. This brush is received by the barber inclosed in a hermetically sealed wrapper from which it is removed when needed and introduced into the holder which is so constructed that it holds the brush without the provision of any complicated adjusting means. The pressure of the fingers of the user upon the spring arms 7 tends to more firmly press said arms upon the brush, and the outwardly-turned ends 8, in addition to facilitating the introduction of the brush into the holder, serve as stops or abutments for the fingers of the user. One of the rings 2 is so positioned that it cooperates with the spring arms 7 near the ends of the latter, and the depressions 3 in said ring thus hold the brush against freely turning within the brush holder. The inwardly-extending tongues 9 limit the inward movement of the brush and, in this way, permit a long brush holder to be obtained for use with a relatively short brush thus efi'ecting a saving in the brush material.

hat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In combination with a brush holder formed with a plurality of spring arms, a brush comprising fibers, and a ring surrounding the fibers and provided with depressions engaged by the spring arms to hold the brush against turning in the holder.

2. A brush holder embodying a single blank of sheet material formed with a contral portion and radially-extending arms,

"the arms lying at an angle to the central portion and converging toward their free ends, some of said arms being provided with inwardly-extending projections to limit the inward movement of the brush.

3. A brush holder comprising a plurality of resilient arms converging toward their free ends, some of said arms having inwardly-extending projections for limiting the inward movement of the brush.

GEORGE H. RIEFLIN.

Witnesses:

HAROLD H. SIMMs, ADA M. WHITMORE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner 01'. Patents, Washington, D. O. 

